Categories: All - effects - techniques - patterns

by Zoe Cattan 17 years ago

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Rhyme

The text discusses rhyme and its various techniques and effects in poetry. It highlights end rhyme, half rhyme, and singular or masculine rhyme, providing examples such as "eye/symmetry"

Rhyme

Rhyme

Using two or more words whose last syllables sound the same

Effects

humour
emphasises the rhyming words
creates patterns in poem

Uses

blank verse

no rhyme at all

free verse

irregular use of rhyme

regular verse

regular rhyme scheme

Techniques

half rhyme

a partial rhyme e.g. 'eye/symmetry'

singular or masculine rhyme

where the stressed syllables of words rhyme e.g. 'bright/night'

rhyming couplets
end rhyme